This Week in Elasticsearch - November 06, 2013

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This week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Slides

Where to find Us

Australia

Clinton Gormley will be speaking at the inaugural
Sydney Elasticsearch Meetup on November 18th and the Melbourne Search Users Group on November 21st. Clinton will cover new features forthcoming in 1.0 and will be joined by other speakers from the Melbourne and Sydney community. We'll have full details for you next week.

Ireland

Japan

The Elasticsearch User Group in Japan will meet for a
study session on November 12th in Tokyo. The meeting begins at 7 PM.

Netherlands

Elasticsearch will be at the
CloudStack Collaboration Conference EU on November 20-22nd in Amsterdam. Stop by our table to say hello, and make sure to catch Boaz Leskes and Gerard de Vos' workshop on Elasticsearch, taking place on Wednesday, November 20th.

United Kingdom

We'll be out in force at Strata London from November 11-13th, with both Shay Banon and Costin Leau attending the conference. You can stop by the Elasticsearch booth to meet with both of them during the conference. Shay will present at the Big Data London Meetup, taking place on the first evening of Strata London.

Shay and Costin will also be attending the London Elasticsearch Meetup on November 11th, where they'll be available for audience Q&A following presentations from Graham Tackley with The Guardian and Andrew Clegg with Pearson. The meetup will start at 6:30 PM at Red Badger's offices.

United States

Martijn will present at a Lunch and Learn session on New Features in Elasticsearch 1.0 at Verizon's offices in Ashburn, Virginia on Thursday, November 7th. Our hosts, Verizon, will also treat the audience to information on their use of Elasticsearch. Doors open at 11:30 AM; please arrive early to give yourself plenty of time to check in at reception.

Rashid Khan will be attending Desert Code Camp in Phoenix, Arizona on Saturday, November 9th. If you'll also be there, have a chat with him on all things Kibana.

You can learn all about how Atlassian uses Elasticsearch for Heavy lifting in HipChat at the San Francisco Bay Area meetup on Monday, November 18th. Atlassian will be hosting the meetup at their offices and doors open at 6:30 PM.

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort,
take a moment to let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also
hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticearch, Kibana and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: